What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
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The Trouble With Tribbles - The Story of the Cook
The food and fantasy at the time was similarly underwhelming, in sort of generic fhantasy. And so writers got it in their heads that a bubbling pot of goop is the quintessential road trip food when it really, really isn't. Also, there was something of a crossover with the western black and whites of the 19 forties and fifties,. where everybody's out on the range stirring this huge pot of stew, because that signifies cooking. This is fran wild. She writes fantasy books, and she hosts a blog and a podcask clled cooking the books.
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